But more than by anything concerning the men and women of this neighbourhood, one is impressed by the swarm of dreggy children playing their poor little pavement games in the shadow of these lodging-houses.

She hung up her hat, patting at her hair in the little square of mirror above the stationary washstand, looking back at herself out of eyes a bit dreggy with tiredness, but her skin so deep in its whiteness that it was almost as if its creamy quality had congealed of mere richness.

• For the above-mentioned strength-of-schedule purposes, frontrunners TCU and Utah would prefer that the dregs of the Mountain West not be quite so dreggy this year, but the early returns are that they might be even dreggier.

_ a flaw in our titles was discovered, the plate we were promised at the family table is flung at our head, and we were again the scum of creation, intolerably vulgar, at once cowardly and overbearing, -- no relations of theirs, after all, but a dreggy hybrid of the basest bloods of Europe.